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Many Americans think of gout as a disease from a bygone era, akin to rickets or scurvy. The condition commonly afflicted the rich and royal, including American historical figures such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Gout is indeed one of the earliest known diseases, first identified by the ancient…
CNN — The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 may have taken place more than 30 years ago, but the appearance of alleged bombmaker Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi in a US court on Monday has sparked a new wave of interest in the attack. Here’s what you need…
NIF Target Area operators inspect a final optics assembly during routine maintenance at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility. (Jason Laurea/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility have made history by successfully producing a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a breakthrough…
CNN — Ukrainian forces struck the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol over the weekend, opening a new front in Kyiv’s fight to reclaim land in the south of the country and underlining the importance of longer-range weaponry. The attacks struck a number of different locations, including a church being used as…
As uncertainty drags on, can UK driving licence holders in Italy expect another eleventh-hour extension to the grace period at the end of the year? Source link
CNN — Kosovo’s Prime Minister urged NATO peacekeeping troops to intervene after minority Serb protesters blocked roads and unknown gunmen exchanged fire with police over the weekend amid rising ethnic tensions in the country’s restive north. At a news conference in Kosovo’s capital Pristina on Sunday, Prime Minister Albin Kurti…
CNN — A giant winter storm cutting through the US is bringing severe weather, with dangerous blizzard conditions in the Great Plains, icy weather in the upper Midwest and severe storms along the Gulf Coast Tuesday. There are more than 10 million people across 17 states under winter weather alerts…
The Italian government is making changes to the popular ‘superbonus 110’ scheme from January 2023. Here’s what this will mean for homeowners now completing – or starting – renovation work. Source link
CNN — Multiple explosions have been reported in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol in southern Ukraine, in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and in annexed Crimea – including at a Russian military barracks. The explosions in Melitopol came amid reports from officials on both sides that Ukraine had launched a…
New York CNN — The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Sam Bankman-Fried on Tuesday with defrauding investors and customers in his failed crypto exchange FTX. The SEC said Bankman-Fried, “orchestrated a years-long fraud” to conceal from FTX investors the diversion of customer funds to Alameda Research, his crypto trading firm.…
Editor’s Note: Warning: This story contains details some readers may find disturbing. Kostiantynivka, Ukraine CNN — The streets outside Vyacheslav Tarasov’s home on Ukraine’s eastern frontline are pocked by shell blasts. The buildings around are mostly empty, windowless and cold. Bakhmut has been facing the relentless firepower of a frustrated…
Struggling with your Italian? We’ll teach you a shortcut. Source link
(CNN) — It wasn’t the honeymoon they planned. Instead of exploring the South Pacific on the cruise of a lifetime, newlyweds Jay and Carmen Martinez found themselves stuck at sea with no end date in sight. The Martinezs boarded the Norwegian Jewel on February 28, 2020. Pre-departure, the couple —…
Doctors have warned that Covid along with a ‘very rapid’ rise in seasonal flu cases means Italy’s emergency rooms risk being overwhelmed over the holidays. Source link
Rome’s new Line C subway station Colosseo-Fori Imperiali will be operational by February 2025, according to the city council. Source link
A series of strikes against the new government’s proposed budget will affect travel in areas across Italy this week. Here’s what to look out for. Source link
The EU has been hit by a growing scandal that alleges Members of the European Parliament accepted huge cash bribes from figures working on behalf of World Cup host Qatar. Here’s what we know so far. Source link
ITER’s fusion energy experiments will take place inside the vacuum vessel of a donut-shaped machine called a tokamak. Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France — From a small hill in the southern French region of Provence, you can see two suns. One has been blazing for four-and-a-half billion years and is setting. The other…
Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens speaks to CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday. The top US hostage affairs official on Sunday reflected on conducting the prisoner swap that led to Brittney Griner’s release, saying the WNBA star immediately thanked the crew returning her to the United States. “When…
A police officer walks away from the wreckage of the jet that exploded and crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. (Roy Letkey/AFP/Getty Images) On Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded 31,000 feet over Lockerbie, Scotland — 38 minutes after takeoff from London. United States and British investigators found…
CNN — Freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout said on Saturday he “wholeheartedly” supports Moscow’s so-called “military operation” in Ukraine and that if he had the opportunity and necessary skills, he would “certainly go as a volunteer.” Bout, nicknamed the “Merchant of Death” by his accusers, was released Thursday from…
Anyone planning a trip between Italy and the UK this Christmas or New Year will have to consider a rapidly-increasing amount of strike action – and most of it is not on the Italian side. Here’s what you need to know about holiday travel. Source link
If you come from a country with charity shops or thrift stores on every corner, it can be hard to figure out what to do with your used items in Italy. Here’s where to start. Source link
CNN — The nominees for the 80th Golden Globe Awards were announced on Monday. Mayan Lopez and Selenis Leyva, two of the stars from “Lopez vs. Lopez,” announced the range of film and television nominees as selected by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). Favored Oscars contender “The…
Brittney Griner lands in US after 10 months in Russian detention following a prison swap, as Vladimir Putin defends his assault on Ukraine’s civilian power infrastructure. Source link
From winter weather to transport strikes: here are the key events happening in Italy this week that you should know about. Source link
A man killed three women and wounded four other people, including a friend of the Italian prime minister, in a rare mass shooting in Rome on Sunday. Here’s what we know about the incident so far. Source link
US official shares details of Griner's flight home Source link
CNN — Eva Kaili, one of the European Parliament’s vice presidents, has been expelled by her political party in Greece amid a corruption probe. The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), one of Greece’s main opposition parties, said in a statement Friday: “Following the latest developments and the investigation by Belgian authorities…
